Sen. Mike Lee will deliver the tea party’s response to the president’s State of the Union Address, a major tea party group announced Tuesday.

The Utah Republican will speak immediately after the traditional Republican response to the State of the Union, which begins after President Barack Obama’s address, the Tea Party Express said.

The State of the Union is set for next Tuesday.

The Tea Party Express, a tea party PAC, began giving a response to the State of the Union in addition to the Republican response in 2011, delivered that year by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). Last year, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) gave the tea party response.

Lee was a key figure in last year’s government shutdown, when along with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Lee advocated for a strategy on budget negotiations that would not pass a budget unless it defunded Obamacare. While the tactics drew criticism from Democrats and many mainstream Republicans, the pair became champions of the tea party movement.

Republicans have yet to announce who will give their response; the party leaders usually tap a rising star ready to boost their national profile.